The size of his victory . . . contradicted the maxim of latter-day fellow Californian Leo Durocher, who once said positively: Nice guys finish last.

The arts have traditionally employed devices that seem designed to assist the spectator in lifting the occasion out of any practical context and placing it in a special, autonomous space of its own. The pedestal and the stage raise sculpture and theatre above the plane of ordinary life, the frame and the proscenium arch separate art and performances from their surroundings, special halls for the visual arts and for music provide what the cathedral does for religious worship, a sanctified space removed from the concerns of daily life.

For when the Mind is once re-pleniſh’d with ſound and good Principles, not taken up at a Venture, but upon the most mature Deliberation, what can we reaſonably expect, but that it ſhould exert it ſelf in a ſuitable Manner upon all proper Occaſions.

Some very significant but not very widely known news (even in the sector itself) is that rail is not only uniquely placed to benefit from this promised change of direction, there is already solid evidence to put the rail sector ahead of the pack as a potential investment priority.